Curriculum Vitae Dr. Dennis M. Mares Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville E-mail: dmares@siue.edu Office Phone: 618-650-5118 Home Phone: 314-646-1011 Academic Positions 2012- Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, SIU-Edwardsville 2007-2012 Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, SIU-Edwardsville 2005-2007 Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 2004-2005 Research Director: Latino Drug Abuse Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL Education 2004 University of Missouri St. Louis Ph.D., Criminology & Criminal Justice 2002 University of Missouri St. Louis MA, Criminology & Criminal Justice 1998 Utrecht University, the Netherlands Combined BA / MA, Cultural Anthropology with specialization in Urban Sociology Areas of Specialization Criminology Research Methods Comparative/ Historical Criminology Youth Gangs /Juvenile Delinquency Neighborhood Dimension of Crime Crime Mapping and Crime Trends Green Criminology
Peer Reviewed Publications 2000 Globalization and Youth Gangs: The Manchester Case. Focaal. 35: 135-55. Martinez, Ramiro Jr., Richard R. Rosenfeld and Dennis Mares. 2008 Social Disorganization, Drug Market Activity, and Neighborhood Violent Crime. Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 43(6): 846-74. 2009 Civilization, Economic Change, and Trends in Interpersonal Violence in Western Societies. Theoretical Criminology. Vol. 13(4): 419 449 2010 Social Disorganization and Gang Homicides in Chicago: A Neighborhood Level Comparison of Disaggregated Homicides. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. Vol. 8(1): 38-57 2010 Criminalizing Ecological Harm: Crimes Against Carrying Capacity and the Criminalization of Eco-Sinners. Critical Criminology Vol. 18(4): 279-293. and Emily Blackburn 2012 Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Acoustic Gunshot Location System in St. Louis, MO. Policing, Vol. 35 (1): 1-17. Bookchapters 2001 Gangstas or Lagerlouts? Working Class Youth Gangs in Manchester. Malcolm Klein, Elmar Weitekamp, Cheryl Maxson and Hans-Jurgen Kerner (editors). The Eurogang Paradox. Dordrecht: Kluwer-Plenum. and Antonius Robben 2001 Dutch Culture. In: M. Ember and C.R. Ember (Eds.) Countries and their Cultures. Vol III: 1564-1576. New York: Macmillan.
Book reviews 2000 Book review: Mark Fleisher, Dead end kids, Gang Girls and the boys they know. Kwalon 5 (2). 2001 Review Essay: The Ethnography of Poverty: Economic Transformation and Local Patterns of Cultural Change among the Urban Poor in the United States. Focaal 36: 195-202. 2002 Book review: Tracing the Civilizing Process: How Life Experiences and Social Theories Converge. Focaal 40: 194-196. 2010 Review Essay: Stephen Mennell: The American Civilizing Process. Theory and Society. Vol. 39 (6): 689-695. 2011 Review: Race and Police Brutality: Roots of an Urban Dilemma. Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 30, (4) (Summer 2011): 108-110 Funded Grants 2009 Weather and Crime: An Explorative Study of the Linkages between Weather and Crime Indicators in St. Louis, MO 1994-2008. Internal STEP grant for 2010-2011. Amount awarded: $11,606 Conference presentations 2003 The Civilizing Process and Property Crimes. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting in Boston, MA. 2003 The Civilizing Process, Economic Change, and Violence: An Assessment of the Evidence in England, the Netherlands and the United States. American Society of Criminology meeting in Denver, CO.
2003 The Civilizing Process and Punishment: Toward a Typology of Punishment Regimes. American Society of Criminology meeting in Denver, CO. Martinez, Ramiro, Dennis Mares, and Jacob Stowell 2005 Incorporating Race, Space and Drug Markets in Social Disorganization theory: Findings from a Comparison of Violent Deaths in an Immigrant City. Presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting Philadelphia, PA Martinez, Ramiro; Rosenfeld, Richard; 2007 Social Disorganization, Drug Market Activity, and Neighborhood Violent Crime. American Sociological Association, annual meeting New York, NY 2008 Self-Initiated Police Activities and Crime: A neighborhood level exploration of the success of broad based policing strategies. Status. Presented at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in St. Louis, MO 2009 Ecological Harm: A Forgotten Crime? Presented at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA Work in Progress 2012 Climate Change and Crime: Monthly Temperature and Precipitation Anomalies and Crime Rates in St. Louis, MO 1990-2009. Revise and Resubmit. Crime Law and Social Change. 2012 Climate Change and Levels of Violence in Socially Disadvantaged Neighborhood Groups. Revised and Resubmitted Journal of Urban Health 2012 Location, Temperature and Reported Levels of Assaultive Behavior: Disaggregating Assaults in Cleveland, OH: 2004-2009. In progress.
Research featured in: SIUE CAS Today Mares valuable criminal justice research grabs attention at Harvard, October 17 th, 2010, http://thisweekincas.com/2010/10/17/maresvaluable-criminal-justice-research-grabs-attention-at-harvard SIUE Fall 2010 Research & Creative Activities Studying Community-based Factors in Crime and Gang Violence: Dennis Mares. Page 19. Teaching 2000-2002 University of Missouri St. Louis (teaching assistant) Policing (instructor: Allen Wagner) Theories of Crime (instructor: Bruce Jacobs) Introduction to Criminology (instructor: Allen Wagner) Juvenile Justice (instructor: Finn Esbensen) 2002 Washington University, St. Louis Poverty in Western Societies 2002-2004 University of Missouri St. Louis: Communities and Crime Theories of Crime Juvenile Justice 2005-2007 Florida Atlantic University Criminology (graduate and undergraduate) Research Methods 2007-Present Southern Illinois University CJ 208 Introduction to Law Enforcement CJ/SOC 272 Criminology CJ 302 Methods of Research CJ 303 Data Analysis CJ 366 Race, Class, Gender and Criminal Justice CJ 390 Special Topics: Comparative Criminology CJ 390 Special Topics: Neighborhoods and Crime CJ 390 Special Topics: Environmental Crime and Green Criminology
Service Service to the University 2005-2007 Graduate committee, FAU 2006-2007 Undergraduate committee, FAU 2007 Participated on two session at SIUE-Preview 2008 Annual Review Committee, department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies 2008 Presentation for Dialogue with senior citizens 2-13-2008 2008 Presentation at SIUE-Preview 2008-2010 Library Liaison for Criminal Justice studies 2009 Reviewer for S.T.E.P. seed grants, subpanel: Social Sciences, Business, and Education Review Panel for S.T.E.P 2009- CAS Research and Projects Committee (ongoing) Subcommittee chair Social Sciences panel since 2010 2009-2010 Sociology/Criminal Justice Studies Ad-hoc Promotion and Tenure Committee (ongoing) 2010 Sociology/Criminal Justice Studies: P&T revised papers review committee 2010 Reviewer for S.T.E.P seed grants, subpanel: Social Sciences, Business and Education Review Panel for S.T.E.P 2011 Annual Review Committee, department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies Service to the Profession 2000-2007 Associate editor of Focaal, European Journal of Anthropology. 2007- Editorial associate of Theory and Society (ongoing) 2007 Reviewer for The Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies 2009 Reviewer for The Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies 2010 Book reviewer for Theory and Society 2010 Reviewer for Criminology 2011 Reviewer for Criminology 2012 Reviewer for Homicide Studies 2012 Reviewer for Criminology (2x) Service to the Community 2007 Examination of Impact of Drug Crimes on the City of Delray Beach, FL. In collaboration with Delray Beach Police Department
2007 Interview with Olivia Goldberg at the Belleville News Democrat 2008 Ongoing analytical assistance to St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, Crime Analysis Unit 2010 Speaker at Harvard Black Law Students Association, Spring Conference at Harvard Law School. 2011 Interviews with St. Louis Beacon. 2011 Ongoing partnership with US attorney s office District of Southern Illinois: Evaluation of Project Safe Neighborhoods. 2012 Interview with Ann Rubin KSDK, aired on 4-12-2012
References (1) Kevin Cannon: Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies SIU-E Phone: 618-650-3295 E-mail: kcannon@siue.edu (2) Dave Kauzlarich Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies SIU-E Phone: 618-650-2891 E-mail: dkauzla@siue.edu (3) Trish Oberweis Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies SIU-E Phone: 618-650-3292 Email: toberwe@siue.edu